Hi! I finally upgraded to kernel 2.6.13, added udev, hotplug, hal, dbus.It actually worked this morning! When plugggin in my usb HD's they showed up in /media/, but I could not see anything on them!? I tried to burn a cd with kb3, and saw both devices listed in there (hdc, hdd), even burnt a cd just fine. Tried mounting and unmounting various cd's, worked flawlessly. I was just working on adding more media support for dvd's, when I decided to restart for some reason. Now anytime I try to mount (doesn't matter what) it just hangs, and does nothing. My usb drives don't show up, k3b fails to start. I must have messed up something, but can't figure out what.. Can someone please shed some light on this?

One thing that might have caused it, was that I accidently created a symlink aka "ln -s hdb /dev/dvd"- which was wrong I meant to use "hdc"

now,-this is strange! after I had everything working (besides that one usb problem), I did one restart. Now, no cd drives get recognized, no audio cd, k3b is crashing wile trying to start. The exact same problem I had earlier. I am wondering if I should give up on that hal-dbus thing. How do you guys usually go about making all that work, reliably? Just write udev rules?
I was suggested to look at the /usr/share/hal/fdi/90defaultpolicy/storage-policy.fd :